--- Leland Ray <elray544@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I need to create installers for a product in > multiple >Unix variants and Windows: Linux RedHat, > Suse, >SunOS,HP-UX, AIX, Win2k, Win2003, ... > > rpm is really a component installer, and most > products > these days are constructed from a variety of > components. For the products I do with rpm, I find > it > much easier to split into multiple rpms and use a > yum > repository (or something like it) to install. Also, > prerequisites that might not be normally installed > with a distribution can get automatically installed, > that way. Finally, I tend to separately package any > 3rd party libraries I am using. This has an added > benefit in it keeps the licensing people happier. > > Do I understand that you have a single binary > requirement? In other words, you do a single Linux > build, and that build must work on all the > distributions of Linux you support? If yes, its > going > to take some research on your part to determine the > configuration of your build machine. You'll need, > for Another option to deal with applications binary portability is using tools like statifier (http://statifier.sf.net) or Ermine (http://www.magicErmine.com) Those tools create self-contained executable from exe and all it's shared libraries, so resulting file have no dependebcies (only minimal kernel version) Valery. > instance, a glibc which has an old enough version > that > it will encompass all the distributions you target. > You may also need to package compatibility rpms for > some distributions. > > There is also the option of building on every system > you support. May or may not be practical for your > situation, often QA requirements keep that from > being > the right approach. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Luggage? GPS? Comic books? > Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search > http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
